This is a slideshow we did as part of our fulfilment for the John Muir Award at the Multiple Intelligence School, Fiji. This is part of the Discovery Award. This shows our exploration of pollution and rubbish on Suva Point in April 2014.

1. Pod 12, 2014
John Muir Award -
Discovery
Multiple Intelligence School, Fiji Islands

2. Discovering Suva Point
what we did, what we learned, why we did it

3. Discovering Suva Point, a public park in Suva, Fiji Islands,
was part of the “John Muir Award”

4. John Muir
•“Father of Conservation”
• born April 21, 1838
• first to establish a
wildlife sanctuary
(Yosemite Park)
• has inspired others to
conserve & protect
wildlife

5. The John Muir Award consists of:
1. Discovery Award
2. Explorer Award
3. Conserver Award

6. The John Muir Award consists of:
1. Discovery Award
2. Explorer Award
3. Conserver Award
We did this
award at Suva
Point.You need
to:
1. Discover
2. Explore
3. Conserve
4. Share

7. 1st:You need to discover a wild place.

8. Our wild place was Suva Point

9. Go discovering in the
daytime...
You should:

10. Go discovering in the
daytime...
...and the night-time.
You should:

11. Go discovering
at high-tide...

12. Go discovering
at high-tide... ...and at low-tide.

13. Draw things that you see

14. Draw things that you see

15. We saw the effects of humans in our wild place. Not a
very good effect.

16. 2nd: Explore your wild place!

17. Look at your wild place from
different perspectives by
• sketching animals/plants
•envisioning maps
•microscopic hunts

18. 3rd: Help conserve your wild place!

19. First we did a litter survey

20. We cleared as much of the litter as we could

21. Check us posing with the garbage!
We collected plastic
bags, food wrappers and
anything that we thought
would be dangerous to
wildlife

22. 4th: Share the experiences!

23. We found out that the rubbish
came from villages that dumped
it carelessly into the ocean.

24. We found out that the rubbish
came from villages that dumped
it carelessly into the ocean.
It was important that we lots of
people what was going on here.

25. The People of Fiji should know.

26. The People of Fiji should know.
Here’s why...

28. Experts examine the dead whale which washed ashore on
the Isle of Mull. Its stomach was clogged with plastic bags.

40. Not only are animals affected by careless littering.

41. Not only are animals affected by careless littering.

45. Create something to make others aware, like this litter
poster...